PRESSE:
07/2007 - Le Dauphiné Libéré
11/2006 - Rhône Alpes passions
09/2000 - Le Magazine - Morbihan
- Le BENEZIT
- Jaquette de « Je ne t’aime pas Paulus » d’Agnès Dessart
- Le Réveil du Vivarais, Terre Vivarois
1994 - Artiste
02/94 - Animaux Magazine - Paris
01/94 - L’Equipe - Paris
01/94 - Le Courrier des Galeries - Paris
06/91 - Actualité des Arts – (Christian Eclimont)
04/91 - L’Express - Paris
07/85 - Le Figaro – Paris (Sandra d’Aboville)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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2008 - by Editions Deltaconcept, the first book of Jean Prévost includes around thirty reproductions of original clothes
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Jean is a wise and discreet fauve, a chameleon fauve. He only roars – with colour and joy – on the walls of his studio.
So I came to find myself face to face with Jean Prévost, the painter, when I finally made my way into his lair, at the end of a little cul-de-sac in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, whose cocky name conjured up images of Edith Piaf and was a poem in itself.
Then Jean appeared out of nowhere like a magician. The journey that he offers his guests takes them from the banks of the Seine to villages in Ardeche, from fishing ports of pinks and greens to calm and voluptuous interiors where porcelain teapots tell stories of China to oranges from Andalusia bursting with sweetness, from scenes in elegant Parisian ballrooms to the passionate fury of Argentinean tangos…
Valérie Denarnaud-Mayer
Lecturer in History and History of Art.
Juin 2008 |
"Jean Prévost distinguishes himself as the ultimate heir of the eulogists of pure colour. Nevertheless, beyond the admitted stylistic links, his artistic language shows a real independence, as much in the saying as in the doing.
The ‘saying’ brings us to the content whose rich diversity is reflected in the titles of his works: Marivaudage, Les amoureux du Tango, Cafetière rouge et fruits, Notre-Dame de Paris, Port de pêche en Bretagne, Chalutiers à quoi, Danseurs de tango à Buenos Aires, Tango argentino, etc. Portraits, still life, landscapes, dances, etc. there is no genre that our artist does not seek to explore, no theme that he does not rouse with the rhythmic beat of his vivid colours! Because it is by the ‘doing’ that Jean Prévost asserts the stylistic unity of his paintings. Far from any intellectualism, his art is characterised by truly bold contrasts of colours that give it a spontaneous quality as appealing as it is contagious. Pushing the decorative effect of colour to the extreme, he uses shading or colour to precisely localise the different tones and accentuate the picture, thereby amplifying the expressiveness of its composition.
Jean Prévost is to painting what Francis Poulenc is to music. Was it not once said of the latter that his compositions reveal a personality that is ‘part monk, part hooligan’?
‘Monk’ for the compassion and infinite tenderness that our painter puts across with humility, ‘hooligan’ for his gutsy use of colours that makes his paintings swing, makes women sway, and reminds us how ‘great and poetic we are in our cravats and polished boots.’ (Baudelaire)
Noël Coret - Art writer
President of the Salon d’Automne of Paris
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